Why don't you go FIX your own dinner??!!

We all remember the famous - "Do your DOWNstairs chore" incident where we thought that Mom wasn't going to say "downstairs". Well we were discussing how elevated emotion and emphasis on a certain word oft time causes us to think that she might be using another word. Well after discussing this Mom was telling us about the frustrations of raising four boys, and when they all start saying they are hungry you just want to tell them "Why don't you go and FIX your own dinner??!!" All of us who were listening braced ourselves and held our breath until the word fix was finished. Once we confirmed it was really just the word fix we all breathed a sigh of relief. All I have to say is Case and Point!

M&M

Some of you might recall a time when I had a candy dish full of M&M's in my room. I knew that people would eat them from time to time, but at one point they were dissapearing pretty quickly. When I brought it up at the dinner table everyone assured me that they weren't eating them. I asked all the brothers and they denied guilt. Scott admitted to eating a couple when I wasn't there, but not enough to account for a rapid drop in my M&M supply. I couldn't believe that nobody was guilty in the dissapearance of so many M&Ms. Finally Mom spoke up and admitted to sneaking into my room while I was at school. In fact she snuck in several times a day to fulfill her chocolate-in-a-crunchy-candy-shell cravings.